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Author : George Frere
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of Barbados written by George Frere and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634449
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Children of Uncertain Fortune written by Daniel Livesay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173605
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Sea of Storms written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean’s indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region’s governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster.
Author : David S. Shields
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226752992
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Oracles of Empire written by David S. Shields and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative look at previously neglected poetry in British America represents a major contribution to our understanding of early American culture. Spanning the period from the Glorious Revolution (1690) to the end of King George's War (1750), this study critically reconstitutes the literature of empire in the thirteen colonies, Canada, and the West Indies by investigating over 300 texts in mixed print and manuscript sources, including poems in pamphlets and newspapers. British America's poetry of empire was dominated by three issues: mercantilism's promise that civilization and wealth would be transmitted from London to the provinces; the debate over the extent of metropolitan prerogatives in law and commerce when they obtruded upon provincial rights and interests; and the argument that Britain's imperium pelagi was an ethical empire, because it depended upon the morality of trade, while the empires of Spain and France were immoral empires because they were grounded upon conquest. In discussing these issues, Shields provides a virtual anthology of poems long lost to students of American literature.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
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Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report on Barbados written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Halkett
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain... written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature written by Samuel Halkett and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501187228
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dawnlands written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “superb” (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue and political upheaval in 17th-century England. It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant. Alinor’s son is determined to stay clear of the war, but, in order to keep his own secrets in the past, Livia traps him in a plan to create an imposter Prince of Wales—a surrogate baby to the queen. From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Author : Richard B. Sheridan
Publisher : Canoe Press (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9789768125132
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Sugar and Slavery written by Richard B. Sheridan and published by Canoe Press (IL). This book was released on 1994 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Author : Edinburgh University Library
Publisher : Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable. This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Public Library. Adams Collection
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library. Adams Collection and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adams Library of 2,756 volumes was presented to the town of Quincy, Mass., in 1822; a catalogue was issued in 1823 under title: Deeds and other documents relating to the several pieces of land, and to the library presented to the town of Quincy, by President Adams, together with a catalogue of the books. The library was lodged, after various transfers, in the Thomas Crane public library of Quincy in 1882, and deposited in the Boston public library in 1894. Additions to the original collection have brought the numbers to 3,019.
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Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 688 pages
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Download or read book Americana. Booksellers' Catalogues written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Carter Brown Library
Publisher : Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library ; New York, N.Y.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the Caribbean and the Guianas written by John Carter Brown Library and published by Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library ; New York, N.Y.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293398
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book An Empire Divided written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.
